constitutional-infirmity

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-324 Christina Paylan v. Florida Florida 2024-09-20 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure constitutional-infirmity due-process fair-trial judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics Whether Florida's lack of rules governing appellate judicial disqualification violates due process rights of litigants
22-7119 Vincent Alonzo Corson v. Texas Texas 2023-03-27 Denied IFP carrier-standard cause-and-prejudice constitutional-infirmity due-process habeas-corpus mccleskey-abuse-of-writ preclusive-effect retroactivity state-court-proceedings Whether a state court judgment that is constitutionally infirm due to lack of a full and fair hearing should be given preclusive effect
21-7431 William Nobles v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-infirmity exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-enforcement-misconduct magistrate-review probable-cause warrant-requirement warrant-validity Whether the good-faith exception should apply when law enforcement officers bury a crucial fact that they knew or should have known would reveal a war…
20-5749 Elijah Hart v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-infirmity fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-enforcement law-enforcement-disclosure magistrate-judge magistrate-review warrant warrant-application Whether the good-faith exception should apply when law enforcement officers technically disclose a crucial fact that would reveal a warrant's constitu…
20-5035 Octavius McLendon and Henry Lee Bryant v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting brady-violation constitutional-infirmity joint-trial new-trial-relief principal-conviction Where a Brady violation has rendered constitutionally infirm the conviction of a defendant who was alleged to be the principal in the commission of an…
19-7154 In Re Corey Devon Eaton 2020-01-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence cause-and-prejudice constitutional-infirmity due-process plea-agreement plea-agreement-involuntary plea-waiver procedural-default retroactive-relief safety-valve whether-plea-agreement-involuntary
19-7053 Jason Dean Barnes v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-disclosure constitutional-infirmity digital-technologies good-faith-exception law-enforcement magistrate-judge magistrate-review warrant warrant-infirmity Whether and in what circumstances the good-faith exception should apply in cases involving emerging digital technologies when law enforcement officers…
19-6886 Sean M. Donahue v. Superior Court of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-09 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP constitutional-infirmity coram-nobis equal-rights federal-preemption foreign-policy immigration-law post-conviction-relief Does Commonwealth v. Descardes, 136 A.3d 493 (Pa. 2016) violate federal preemption in foreign policy and immigration law?
19-6605 Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-infirmity due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment post-conviction-relief short-sentence standing state-courts statutory-construction Are the following Pennsylvania statutes constitutionally infirm?
19-6628 Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-infirmity due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-relief short-sentence statutory-construction Whether the Pennsylvania statutes 42 Pa.C.S. §9542, 42 Pa.C.S. §9543(a)(1)(ii), 42 Pa.C.S. §9545(a), 42 Pa.C.S. §9545(b)(1), and 18 Pa.C.S. §2709(a)(4…
19-6487 Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-11-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-921a20b 18-usc-922g1 civil-rights civil-rights-restoration constitutional-infirmity cumulative due-process firearms-disabilities firearms-disability jurisdictional-authority misdemeanor-conviction pennsylvania restoration-of-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Does treating 'civil rights' as cumulative render the enforcement of 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) and 18 U.S.C. §921(a)(20)(B) to be constitutionally infirm w…
18-1503 Nagel Rice, LLP, et al. v. Volkswagen Group of America, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-06-03 Denied Response Waived attorneys-fees circuit-split class-action class-action-litigation class-action-settlement conflict-of-interest constitutional-infirmity counsel-fees due-process equal-protection lead-counsel pre-appointment-work unequal-plaintiff-classes Whether non-class counsel is entitled to an award of counsel fees and costs for pre-appointment work, whether a class action settlement agreement prov…